BRADSTONE MANOR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1326685
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: BRADSTONE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BRADSTONE MANOR HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1326685
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: BRADSTONE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BRADSTONE MANOR HOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRADSTONE MANOR HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Bradstone
National Grid Reference:: SX 38183 80908

Details

SX 38 SE BRADSTONE BRADSTONE

5/18 Bradstone Manor House (formerly - listed as Bradstone Hall) 14.6.52

GV II*

Manor house. Possibly late C16 comprising remodelled remains of considerably larger house contemporary with gatehouse (qv Manor Gatehouse). Partly remodelled in late C17 and in late C18. Extension to rear in mid C20. Ashlar facing of Hurdwick stone with moulded plinth. Granite dressings. Rag slate roof with gabled ends. Projecting 3-storey gabled porch. Stone rubble projecting stack on left-hand gable end. Projecting stone rubble stack, partly remodelled with brick shaft on right-hand gable end. Rear projecting lateral hall stack with set offs incorporated in later outshut. 3-room and through passage plan of main range survives. Rear projecting staircase wing on north east. Circa mid C20 outshut to rear. 2 storeys, regular 5-window south west front. 3-storey porch to right of centre. To left of porch, circa late C18/early C19 16-pane sash on left and two 32-pane sashes on right. All beneath dressed stone arches, with exposes sash boxes and without horns. Inserted late C19 French window to right of first sash. To right of porch 4-light granite mullion window with moulded hollow chamfered mullions and surround comprising cavetto, fillet and ovolo moulding. Hoodmould with square label stops. In ground floor of porch, 4-centred granite arch with heavy rollmould. Cavetto moulded rectangular surround with moulded stops. Incised spandrels and hoodmould. Inner door with 4-centred granite arch with cavetto mould and plain incised spandrels. Chamfered surround. Moulded stops. Circa C17 double boarded and studded door. First floor with 3 half-dormer windows to left of porch. Lower gabled dormer on right with moulded pediment and boarded window. 2 dormers to right similar with 12/8 pane sashes without horns and with exposed sash boxes. To right of porch, mid C19 double 12-pane sashes, possibly in opening for 4-light mullion window as below. First floor of porch with 3-light granite mullion window with chamfered mullions surround. Hoodmould with similar labels stops to those over entrance below. In gable end above, 2-light mullion window with chamfered surround and hoodmould. Sundial directly below. Further remains of sundial directly in front of house. Possibly from stables. Rear elevation with 4-centred granite arch, chamfered and stopped, to rear of through passage. Visible only from within outshut. Outline of blocked granite 2-centred arch reset in outshut to right. In first floor, above door to through passage, 2-light granite mullion window with moulded granite mullions. Interior Wide through passage retained. Room at lower end, to right of through passage with heavy exposed, unchamfered ceiling beams. Later fireplace. Hall to left of through passage with complete reused circa mid C17 panelling with several layers of graining. Ionic fluted pilasters with moulded, circa early C18 cornice, out of sequence with panelling. C19 carved stone fireplace with 4-centred arch. Above, circa late C17 bolection moulded panel with original oil on wood painting of rustic scene. Fielded panelled doors. Door on north west with inlaid mouldings to panels. Inner room on north west with fine, reused circa mid C17 oak panelling. Rectangular panels with moulded edges. Decorated pilasters between with carved interlaced patterns on tall bases, shafts and flat carved capitals. Entablature with interlaced patterns in frieze punctuated by vertical cabled bands and slightly projecting decorated panels above pilasters. Carved cornice above, circa early C18, probably contemporary with remodelling of room. Similar moulding to sides of ceiling beams. Door to rear on north east comprising reused panelling with circa C17 cock's head hinges. Circa early C18 Doric chimney piece. Chamfered granite lintel with unchamfered jambs partly covered by panelling. Reset, fielded panel above, flanked by 2 fluted pilasters on tall bases. Moulded entablature with frieze decorated with bukrania and roundels between triglyphs. Heavy moulded cornice. Fielded panelled shutters to window. Room above on north west with pediment above door. Complete late C17 bolection moulded room with chair rail and 3-panelled contemporary door. Bolection moulded fireplace. Moulded contemporary cornice at eaves level. Plastered ceiling above with sloping sides below principals continuing to collar level. Bolection moulded ribs. Roof timbers exposed to room beyond, circa early to mid C18. Moderate sized principals with straight feet with lapped and pegged collars. Room beyond porch with heavy C17 ovolo-moulded doorcase. Plank door with cover moulds and strap hinges. Domesday manor of Bradestona. Manor house of Cloberry Family. References from Devon Sites and Monuments Register. Higham, R.A. The Castles of Medieval Devon (1979) 53. PhD Thesis, Exeter University Kelly, M. The Pageant of Bradstone (1929) 20 Pevsner N. The Buildings of England, Devon.

Listing NGR: SX3818080910

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 92264
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Higham, R A, The Castles of Medieval Devon, (1979), 53
Kelly, , The Pageant of Bradstone, (1929), 20
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.